How to partition Basic Disk in Windows XP Home Edition?

[Guest]

Windows XP Home Edition was just installed on my computer's hard drive 0 which is the C:\ drive. It is 28.5GB total size, 3GB used and 25.5GB free. No space is unallocated.

I would like to partition this in two, with C:\ drive being 9GB and containing Windows XP Home plus other installed applications, and the (hopefully) new D:\ drive being 19.5GB in size and intended to hold all of the data files.

Q1. Will doing this partitioning erase Window XP and the applications from the C:\ drive?
Q2. How can I do this partitioning. Help talks about right-clicking on the "Unallocated portion of the Basic Drive," but this C:\ drive (Basic Drive) does not have any unallocated space, although 25.5GB of the space is "free space."

Thank you, Xavier

 

[t.cruise]

Windows XP does not a have the capability of partitioning on the fly (not losing data).
With Windows XP, the most that you can do with your C: drive is boot with your Windows XP
CD, opt for a New Install, and then select options for partitioning and formatting, which
will erase your previous install, software, and data files. But, it will partition the
drive.

If you want to partition, or change the size of partitions, WITHOUT LOSING DATA, you'd
have to purchase third party partitioning software like Partition Magic.

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/features.html
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Windows XP Home Edition was just installed on my computer's hard drive 0 which is the

C:\ drive. It is 28.5GB total size, 3GB used and 25.5GB free. No space is unallocated.

I would like to partition this in two, with C:\ drive being 9GB and containing Windows

XP Home plus other installed applications, and the (hopefully) new D:\ drive being 19.5GB
in size and intended to hold all of the data files.

Q1. Will doing this partitioning erase Window XP and the applications from the C:\ drive?
Q2. How can I do this partitioning. Help talks about right-clicking on the "Unallocated

portion of the Basic Drive," but this C:\ drive (Basic Drive) does not have any
unallocated space, although 25.5GB of the space is "free space."

 

[Guest]

I recently did what your talking about as i have a 80GB hdd and didnt want to loose anything on it if i ever formatted it.

when formatting a drive, some space will be unallocated, i dont know why but i noticed this when formatting mine.

to partition a winxp hard drive, you can either use a programme called partition magic, but this MUST stay on the Hard drive forever

or simpler,
backup all stuff to another PC or cd rs

pop in your winxp cd, press any key to boot from cd
there is a reinstall windows option, once in there you can set partition allocation space

 

[Rick]

to partition a winxp hard drive, you can either use a programme
called partition magic, but this MUST stay on the Hard drive forever

Not true. I used PartitionMagic 8.0 to partition my hard drive then I
uninstalled it.

Best Regards
Rick In Florida

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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to partition a winxp hard drive, you can either use a programme
called partition magic, but this MUST stay on the Hard drive

forever


No, this isn't correct on a couple of counts.

First, Partition Magic is only one such program. There are others
(most of which are considerably cheaper) that will also partition
a drive non-destructively. One such program, highly recommended
by several MVPs here, is BootIt Next generation.

Second, once the drive has been partitioned, the work of the
partitioning program is done. It can be uninstalled if desired.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Windows XP Home Edition was just installed on my computer's hard drive 0 which is the C:\ drive. It is 28.5GB total size, 3GB used and 25.5GB free. No space is unallocated.

I would like to partition this in two, with C:\ drive being 9GB and containing Windows XP Home plus other installed applications, and the (hopefully) new D:\ drive being 19.5GB in size and intended to hold all of the data files.

Q1. Will doing this partitioning erase Window XP and the applications from the C:\ drive?

To do it with the tools available in the system would require
reinstalling from scratch, and during this deleting the current
partition and making a new smaller one to install to.

Q2. How can I do this partitioning. Help talks about right-clicking on the "Unallocated portion of the Basic Drive," but this C:\ drive (Basic Drive) does not have any unallocated space, although 25.5GB of the space is "free space."

The 25 GB is *inside* your present partition, and is not unallocated.
You would have Unallocated available if you started over as above.

But this can be done with third party software. Classic is Partition
Magic - what I would use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35
shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

With that download the file to a folder and unzip it. Run the
bootitng.exe to make a bootable floppy

Boot the floppy, do not Install, but click Cancel, thus entering
Maintenance. Click Partition Work.

In the center panel click to highlight your existing partition, and
click Resize - set the size desired and carry on. When done. click OK,
remove the floppy and reboot to XP - there make the second partition in
the Unallocated space.

While procedures like this are very reliable, back up essential data in
advance just in case of say a power failure at a critical moment

 

[kiycoo6]

there are many other third party software you can use, such as AOMEI Partition Assistant, partition master, partition manager, etc.
http://www.disk-partition.com/resource/free-partition-magic-for-windows7.html

 

[John Smith]

there are many other third party software you can use, such as AOMEI Partition Assistant, partition master, partition manager,
etc.
http://www.disk-partition.com/resource/free-partition-magic-for-windows7.html

New partition is for a disk is not use up..

used space 40GB
Free space 100GB
partition 1 use 140GB C: O-System
used space 4GB
Free space 6GB
partition 2 use 10GB D: S-Recovery
Disk side 150GB
all use up on free Disk..

But if the Disk side is 160GB
up can make a 10GB partition 3

For Free partition space,
is not free Disk space..



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Always turning on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP.

Now you need to know how to use MS Fix-It
< http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal >

At no time Format partition 2 D: System-Recovery

 

[John Smith]

It's " " and it should be on a line by itself I believe.

Zilbandy it is on a line by itself



--
Always turning on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP.

Now you need to know how to use MS Fix-It
< http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal >

At no time Format partition 2 D: System-Recovery

 

[tangkuny]

partition magic is out of date, try some partition magic alternative software, like this: http://www.partition-magic.org/products.html